The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-08-16
VOOLFOLK IN HIS CELL.
The Conduct of the Man Who is
Supposed to be Nine Times
q Murder er.

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. ll.-Tom Voolfolk
who is supposed TO he the slayer of nine
persons of the Voolfolk household, near
Macon, was brought to Atlanta yesterday
morning by Jailer Birdsong and turned
over to Jailer Poole soon after Z o'clock
Mr.. Poole says that before Voolfolk was
put into the cell he began to beg for a
clean cell and as much liberty as possible.
People told him that If he was guilty of
this crime he ought not TO ask for any
thing. Soon after he was locked up in
cell No 3 on the first floor. Voolfolk
took off his shirt, washed it and hung il
up TO dry.
This morning when reporter went to
the Jail at about 10 o'clock, Voolfolk had
on no coat nor shirt. He put on his coat
as several men entered his cell, and stood
with his hands locked behind him. Wool
folk is small man, though of tough and
wiry frame. His weight is only $50
pounds. He is rather quickmotioued and
restless. At times he stood with his arms
behind him, and at others he would swing
them back and forward by his side, bring
ing them together in front of him as he
talked. This motion gave the air of either
assumed indifference or an attempt by this
motion to relieve the tension of his ner-
vous system. When he spoke it was in
short sentences and with a rather husky
voice. He has somewhat broad, high
forehead and dark, reddish brown hair,
which bristles up in front. His eyebrows
are of the same color and very heavy. His
nose is straight and rather large, while his
chin is small and pointed. His upper lip
is covered with a close-cut shoe-brush
mustache, and the two or three days
growth of dark redish brown beard, togeth-
er with the dark eyebrows, ugly eyes and
bristling hair, gives him dark leok. His
replies TO questions, so far as he would
talk, were direct. Sometimes he would
look his questiOners in the face for an in
slant, bur generally his glance would be
averted and his eyes would turn from one
object to another. DR.. Howell, who came
into the cell little while after the others,
looked the prisoner straight in the eyes,
Voolfolk looked away. The prisoners de-
meanor indicated that his system was at
high tension, but remarkably well control
led. His condition does not seem to be
much aggravated by allusion TO the crime,
though he frequently said:
Please don't ask me any questions. It's
too sad to talk about"
Another time he said: "The only thing
| have got to say about it is that i don't
see how a child could be suspected of kill
ing his parents. don't see how nybOdy
could suspect that a child would kill his
dear father"
Voolfolk said that he had not employed
a lawyer, but probably would do so, and
hoped he would have fair trial. To r.
). Walker, who went into the Jail TO talk
to another prisoner, and while there con-
versed with Voolfolk, the prisoner said
II am not guilty. Time will show. If
they hang me they will hang an innocent
man. 1t is hard enough to- lose my par
ents, without being charged with the
crime"
Mr.. Walker told him that the public
believed he was guilty, and the
circu instances were strongly against him.
He also made some allusion to the news
papers, and Voolfolk said: "Yes, any
body will spit on me now they spit on
Christ and kicked him about"
When asked where he was born, he said:
IL was raised in Bib County till mama
died, when was about four years old,
ard then was taken to Athens for four
years" He said that he worked hard all
his life, and never lost but three months |
from work, and then he was looking for
work. He said he had always been a |
sober and hsrd-working man. AS 10 the |
lime he worked on The farm near Judge |
Nesbitt's place, he said 81 ran fifteen |
plows and hardly ever made less tn an one
hundred bales of cotton. / was a success
iul farmer, but was unsuccessful in the |
grocery business"
Jailer Poole said that a great many |
people came to see Voolfolk. Some of the
prisoners in the Jail think Voolfolk in
zane, but this idea originated from the
difficulty in believing that a sane man
could commit such crime, and not for
they bad noticed in Woolfolk's /
lemeanor. He has been very discreet in
his utterances, and as Mr.. Poole says 'He
6 no fool.